12/07/2006 @ 6:05PM

A Year Of Awesome Auctions

Modern art auction records weren’t just shattered this year, they were obliterated. No fewer than 50 artists enjoyed record-breaking sums for works sold at auction in 2006, as new buyers from Asia, Australia and the former Soviet block drove prices to staggering levels. Here’s a look at the art, and the prices.

Courtesy of Sothebys

Pablo Picasso

“Dora Mara au Chat”

Sold for $95,216,000. Second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction.